Having restored its profitability during the past financial year, Groupe Rossignol has decided to modernize its two big factories in France and Spain to reinforce its competitiveness. The first stage of the investment program, which will have a total cost of €10 million, will be deployed between now and April 2013, leading to the renovation or the overhaul of many production lines.
At the factory of Rossignol and Dynastar at Sallanches, at the foot of the Montblanc, half of the total production apparatus will be entirely reviewed in this first phase, with the installation of 28 new state-of-the art machines. The factory turns out about 300,000 pairs annually, mostly high-end woodcore skis as well as injected skis that were previously made in Asia.
Other investments will be made at its workshop inside its new head office at Moirans, which produces prototypes and racing skis, and at Rossignol's plant at Artès, in Spain. The latter makes about 450,000 pairs of skis per year, mostly high-volume skis for freeride, freestyle and cross-country.
Rossignol's management said these investments should boost the group's ability to react quickly to changes in the market and to a stabilization in the number of full-time employees, leading to a lower proportion of interim workers.
